notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy.
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6: In this part of the country, the custom is that condemned criminals, rather than be hanged, are lashed to stakes and left out as scarecrows.

7: A procession of serfs is heading down the road toward the priory, celebrating and holding aloft a parsnip shaped like a baby.

8: A farmstead has fallen into genteel ruin save for the smokehouse, which emits a plume of thin blue smoke.

9: A woman stands by a well, dropping food into it.

10: A creep of bugbears has taken over a farm and are playing at being farmers, dressed in the original inhabitants’ clothing and making mock of farmwork. Inside the dwelling is, well, exactly what you would expect.